"This was particularly unsettling given the fact that the theft occurred at a monitored parking lot in front of the county police station."
-A police officer from Skarżysko-Kamienna, Świętokrzyskie province, where a young man stole nine license plates from police cars

"When foreign investors come to our country you call that globalization. But when Russian companies enter Western markets, you say it's expansion."
-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, speaking to foreign correspondents in Russia, on "double standards" in reports about Russia

"If he were a real politician and not a narcissist hysteric, he would have left the plane on his own instead of bringing World War II history into this."
-Tomasz Jastrun, writer and commentator, on Jan Rokita, a former prominent Civic Platform politician, who got into an argument with the crew on board a German Lufthansa plane and was taken out in handcuffs by police; Rokita later described this as an "anti-Polish" incident

"Jasiek, please don't drink vodka on business trips any more."
-Councilor Władysław Łukaszczyk to Jan Walczak, deputy mayor of the popular mountain resort of Zakopane, during a Town Council meeting

Compiled from press reports